Experiment und Komplexität

englischPossibility thinking and experimentation in literature have a long tradition—yet their current significance in literary studies research on the relationship between experimentation and literature has been discussed only hesitantly to date. By means of a comparison of different concepts of experimentation, historical and epistemological differences become clear, which can be traced in the contemporary novels ‘Spieltrieb’ (2004) by Juli Zeh and ‘Koala’ (2014) by Lukas Bärfuss. Various phases of complexity in experiments expand and add detailed nuances to the analysis. In the process, methodological aspects and those of knowledge discourse and literary history contribute to a new and interdisciplinary research perspective.